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MPAA Rating: PG-13 Content Advisory: Nudity, Adult Situations, Not For Children, Profanity Movie Release: 1993 DVD Release: 10/07/1998 Format: DVD - Pan and Scan Audio Tracks: English Subtitles: English SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 51 mins Studio: Warner Home Video Total Copies: 42 Genres: Comedy Drama, Comedy of Errors, Comedy of Manners, Screwball Comedy

Richard Benjamin directed this farce that plays like "Guess Who's Coming for Insemination?" Whoopi Goldberg stars as Sarah Matthews, who runs an African-American oriented bookstore in Oakland. She is raising her daughter, a beautiful high school student named Zora (Nia Long), on her own after her husband's death many years earlier. As a result of a science class blood test, Zora discovers that the man she thought was her father actually wasn't. Instead Zora finds she was the result of artificial insemination. After researching the sperm bank's records, Zora discovers, much to the surprise of Sarah and herself, that the anonymous sperm donor is in fact, Hal Jackson (Ted Danson), a loud, crude obnoxious (and white) used-car dealer who advertises on late-night television. Zora visits Hal while he is filming a commercial and Hal brushes her off. Enraged, Sarah tells Hal off, but after meeting Zora he now feels a paternal itch. Not only that, but he is beginning to feel an attraction to Sarah. ~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide

Whoopi Goldberg - Sarah Matthews
Ted Danson - Hal Jackson
Will Smith - Tea Cake Walters
Nia Long - Zora Matthews
Paul Rodriguez - Jose

Richard Benjamin directs Ted Danson and Whoopi Goldberg in the comedy Made in America, which comes to DVD with a standard full-frame transfer that fails to preserve the original theatrical aspect ratio of the film. The English soundtrack is rendered in Dolby Digital Stereo. There are no subtitles, but the soundtrack is closed-captioned. There are no supplemental materials of any consequence, marking this Warner Brothers release as little more than a pedestrian bare-bones release. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide